Earlier today, MediaTek took the wraps off the much-anticipated Dimensity 1200 5G chip. The rumor mill was agog recently with speculations that Redmi will be the first to launch a phone powered by the latest MediaTek flagship. While we expect other notable OEMs to utilize the chipset, an unexpected announcement just popped up from Chinese phone maker Ulefone. 
Ulefone is expected to unveil the Armor 12 later in the year and the company has come out to disclose the rugged phone will be powered by MediaTek’s Dimensity 1200. A teaser poster released by the company confirms the device will be called Ulefone Armor 12. It is touted to launch as the world’s first rugged phone powered by the Dimensity 1200 SoC.
Furthermore, the device is shown to come in a 12GB RAM and 256GB storage combo. Apparently, there will be other storage options. Specifically, the device is expected to go official in June this year.
The Ulefone Armor 12 will be a rugged phone, as are all other Armor-branded smartphones from Ulefone. The Dimensity 1200 is MediaTek’s 6nm processor, and the company’s first to use Cortex-A78 cores. It comes with a 1+3+4 configuration, and the Cortex-A78 core runs at 3GHz. There are also three Cortex-A78 cores clocks at 2.6GHz. The remaining four cores are more power-efficient, we’re looking at Cortex-A55 cores.
MediaTek did say that the Dimensity 1200 SoC is up to 25-percent more power-efficient than the Dimensity 1000. It is also 22-percent more powerful than the Dimensity 1000, when it comes to performance, of course.
The chip also comes with a five-core imaging signal processor, which supports camera sensors that can capture photos up to 200 megapixels, and HDR videos. It also comes with an updated six-core APU 3.0 AI processor, with a 12.5-percent better performance than its predecessor.
This processor comes with MediaTek’s M70 5G modem, and it supports 5G, including Sub-6 band support, and carrier aggregation (2CC). It also supports 5G dual SIM dual standby.
We expect more information about the smartphone to be released by Ulefone as time goes on.
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